You can work with us by mass-importing Project Gutenberg books to kind 30040s, with each chapter a kind 30041.
I think I'm so bullish on Nostr because I'm primarily a business analyst, not a developer. I am not just focused on what we're trying to build *today*, but on what we might build in *ten years*.
Personalized AI, cryptographic signing, distributed computing, social media, etc. have completely shaken up the tech world. Everyone is scrambling around, trying to modernize to take advantage of them, but Nostr is the only significant protocol I see that is _specifically conceived to maximize the utility of these concepts_.
Even more so than Bitcoin. Nostr is making Bitcoin look like core legacy tech. Useful, trustworthy, best in class, but in the maintenance phase.
Nostr has a unique opportunity because (unlike Stack Overflow, Twitter, Facebook, et al.) we're designing the architecture _after_ ChatGPT came on the scene. That means we can do complex tasks with a very thin tech stack. Everyone else is trying to modernize and smart-ize their technical debt, but we don't have any technical debt. (Other than stringified json in Kind 0 content 😠😜, a pox on all their houses.)
AI is part of the core tech stack here, and not some creepy service we sell to spy on our captured herd of users.
I think that's an asymmetric play, that might be a
Yeah, that's why we're using it for an AI-enfused, fully distributed, Big Data project. Very novel system.
It's been a real slog, but we're finally getting somewhere with it and getting a chance to demo it to new audiences. The market interest is definitely there, primarily from large organisations who manage their own data and want to create a sort of Internet/Intranet hybrid.
It's a shame that people who visit Nostr don't find out about us, as we have no clout here, but we're pounding the pavement outside of Nostr. That's why I stay bullish.
I think some critics miss that we're actually the new hacker bulletin board, for the AI age. That's the second "large topic" that keeps me interested. Bitcoiners tend to be techy people, so that sort of naturally rolled off into a second subgroup.
I don't know how far that can scale up, as AI crawls the space and quickly makes our innovations into commodities, but we've managed to stay a step ahead, so far. And we're increasingly getting concrete business interest as topical experts or consultants, so there's that, to motivate us to stick with the topic.
Biggest hurdle, for us, has been in building something so "far away" from the Primal social feed, that we can present and market the underlying protocol.
Abnb didn't stay _only_ San Francisco.
Mommy bloggers was a ginormous market, with constant new entrants.
You would think Bitcoin talk would scale like mommy talk, as lots of people become new parents or buy Bitcoin for the first time, but most people prefer talking about their family life, than about their currency's emission rate.
We're more like Stack Overflow, in that regard, and SO is being crushed by AI. You don't need to interact with *people*, in order to find out about *things*, anymore. You can just ask ChatGPT, "How is the emission rate for Bitcoin calculated?"
My BitcoinTwitter Bros suggested I come here.
I wouldn't lean into it more, though, as it's already quite all-consuming, and that market has been tapped out and is shrinking.
It's easy to miss the jump into new markets and die from lack of growth.
He's right about the most popular clients and relays, but my own feed is different and I'm building for private or protected networks, so I don't really care.
Yes, 8 out of the 10 women, do. 🙈
Everyone thinks we're dudes, too. 😂 Or Feds, or AI.
Easier to just live with relatives or move out someplace cheaper.
It is. So many people live in vans, now, and camping sites are so overbooked, that "wild campers" are considered a plague. The police go around, at night, chasing them out of parks and off of property, and handing out fines.
If you don't pay the fines, they confiscate the van.
They leave trash and poop, everywhere, and disturb the wildlife.
Yeah, come to a meetup and have dinner with me.
I love that, too, but I find it concerning that they often ask me where I've been, as they haven't seen a post from me in a while, even tho they follow me.
I'm that dumb. 😂
I do that, on purpose. You can easily confirm which are mine.
We need more personalized usage statistics.
Hearing that 200k npubs used Nostr this month, doesn't clarify the fact that they all looked at the same 20 posts, from the same 20 npubs, and then left again.
Because that is what is actually happening.
Another thing that throws people off, is that my audience doesn't scale, at all.
If you see me having a conversation with 10 npubs, all with 10k+ followers, that doesn't signify that anyone else sees the thread or cares. It's just those 10.
Following-back is usually just a courtesy. Has little to do with content. They use other lists, to determine what to read.
They tend to be full of spam, tho.
We all have in-group conversations with our handful of besties, right in the main feed. Basically. It's like a public group, rather than a social feed.
Community relays are less biased than follow-recommendation lists, as there's usually some predefined way to get on those relays, but list membership is completely arbitrary.
I think Damus has a recommended follows list, right? I doubt I'm on that, which is basically the same as being invisible, on Nostr.
This is legit interesting. I love chart porn. 📊
Most of the people who view my images (which I'll use as a proxy for posts) are European, mostly #DACH and #Brits. And that's the case, regardless of what time of day I post.
Often more Canadians, than USA, despite the fact that the vast majority of Nostr users are Americans.
Would be interesting to find out if Europeans and Canadians were more or less likely to use Primal, than Americans. That alone would explain my view stats.
Primal hardly even makes it onto the list of top-referrers, unless the event is currently trending. That sort of proves what I've long claimed: Primal users have an extremely limited feed. We see what they're looking at, but not vice-versa. They only see me if the Europeans and Canadians have boosted me onto the trending list, basically.
My views are often in single or double digits. My impression that hardly anyone sees my stuff is
fact check: true ✅
One of the great mysteries of Nostr is how I regularly manage to trend, despite half of Nostr muting me and the other half considering it, not being rich, famous, or a grant-recipient, not being young or single or a stripper, and having a relatively small number of followers that hasn't noticeably budged in over a year.
This may sound sort of crazy, but I think I have discovered a social media edge case called:
Occasionally Posting Something Interesting
The local relays I am going to run are:
Citrine
https://github.com/greenart7c3/Citrine
Orly
GRAIN
https://github.com/0ceanSlim/grain
Nostr-relay-tray
https://github.com/CodyTseng/nostr-relay-tray
And whatever nostr:npub1wqfzz2p880wq0tumuae9lfwyhs8uz35xd0kr34zrvrwyh3kvrzuskcqsyn and nostr:npub1qdjn8j4gwgmkj3k5un775nq6q3q7mguv5tvajstmkdsqdja2havq03fqm7 eventually cook up. 👀
Yeah, I need to add a local relay to my new laptop. Only have one on mobile.
The older I get, the more I look like my mom. So, I seem to be improving, but only from the neck up. 😂
There are hundreds of other people building useful apps on here, and nobody will ever look at them.
Nostr is mostly a social medium, so your follow count (or the follow count of the people that boost your stuff) is the main thing that determines your app's user numbers. People have to know the app exists and trust you enough to try it out, both of which are nearly impossible, unless they know you _before_ you build.
Vibe-coding actually doubles-down on this effect, as there's quickly a flood of apps and users have to select by brand. Vibe-coding makes apps a commodity, so people look for names they recognize, like when buying ketchup at the grocery store. Since all of the apps are open-source, you can't even compete by offering a cheaper price.
That's what we need.
We're having problems getting the behavior consistent in different environments, so if you can tell us how it works on _your_ machine, with _your_ browser and _your_ signer, that would be useful information.
Anyone interested in a #PurpleKonnektiv houseparty at Bitcoin Prague 2026?
Asking for a friend, who just bought two expo tickets. 👀
I think I'm more conscious of the absolutely massive gap in intellect, experience, knowledge, and ability between myself and almost everyone I come into contact with. I adjusted my expectations all the way back in elementary school, when I would do read-alouds and reading practice for the special-ed students, during my lunch break.
You learn to meet people where they are at and celebrate their their-level triumphs, rather than judging them for not meeting your lofty standard. And you learn to judge people at your own level according to your own measure.
In other words, I measure everyone with a very harsh, exacting stick, but I fold it up smaller, for simpler people. So, they have the same chance to measure up, as everyone else does.
This is a happy way to go through life.
This is quite a remarkable speech given in a practically empty chamber
https://x.com/danny__kruger/status/1945963482920169677
#brits #christian
Wow, this was so good. He's so spot-on. 👏🏻
Network control is the only control.
Encryption is obfuscation, not control.
Closed-source is nonexistent.
Literally Bayrou. 😂
It's nuts to cancel Easter and make the French work harder, when there are so many opportunities for savings.
After seven years of catastrophic mismanagement, Emmanuel Macron and François Bayrou are incapable of making any real savings, and are presenting the French with yet another bill: almost twenty billion euros in taxes and deprivation.
No savings on the cost of immigration, subsidies for out-of-control intermittent energies, a seven-billion-euro increase in our contribution to the European Union, nothing on bureaucracy in hospitals or education.
This government prefers to take it out on the French, workers and pensioners, rather than hunt down waste.
As for boosting production, apart from abolishing standards in conjunction with local players, as proposed by the Rassemblement National, this is nothing more than wishful thinking.
If François Bayrou doesn't change his mind, we'll censure him.
(Translated with DeepL.com)
I wouldn't know. Don't have any degree.
Cheap labor from the West. 😁
Probably not.
But the staff is mostly on lunch break, so it's like.
